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Since change happens all the time, it certainly behooves us to be able to roll with changes. But that ability comes more naturally to some people than to…
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Peer pressure is a powerful thing. Did Americans stop smoking because of all the government ads pointing out their dangers? Or because when a few people…
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"Two heads are better than one" seems like a mismatched phrase with "fake news," but there's a common thread. And that is the working of the human brain.…
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We don't want everyone to know everything about us. But that's just privacy; secrets are another matter entirely. And research shows that keeping secrets…
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"Never put off 'til tomorrow what you can do today." Yeah, that works. But isn't a little R & R today worth a little panic tomorrow? At some level, we…
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You still hear someone talk about "horse sense" now and then. We can get a lot deeper into the conversation with Linda Kohanov. She knows horses and the…
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We can rail all we want about the nasty way people deal with each other in politics. But Sarah Schulman says it's not just politics. Schulman is an…
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It's important to us, when people say "I'm proud of you." Pride in ourselves can be another matter entirely. Pride is supposedly the deadliest of sins,…
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When psychologist Dacher Keltner first began studying power, he thought he'd focus on politics, battlefields, and Wall Street. But he quickly discovered…
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Maybe your parents didn't get along so well. Maybe, once you got older and noticed, your grandparents had very similar issues. We can't choose the…
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We know so much about the brain, and nerves, and neurotransmitters... but... there's still no set of directions on how best to think and use our lives and…
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Susan Cain says she usually speaks quietly, but her 2012 book Quiet came in loud and clear to fellow introverts all over the world. It led to the creation…
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Many of them are illegal under current drug laws, but lots of people believe in the beneficial uses of psychedelic drugs.And they'll get a chance to…
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"Forgive and forget," our parents often told us. Sometimes we're better at one than the other. But plenty of people who know the human mind say the…